Deborah Talmi

Deborah Talmi is a Fellow at the University of Cambridge, affiliated with the School of Biological Sciences and the Department of Psychology. Her research focuses on factors influencing the intensity of current feelings, particularly the experience of pain, and how emotional intensity from visual images affects subsequent memory for those images. Her work spans human behaviour, cognition, emotion, experimental psychology, neuroimaging, and mental health. She employs techniques such as psychological testing, EEG, fMRI, and mathematical modelling in her studies. Her research interests also include memories of healthcare workers and human pain.

Dr. Deborah Talmi is an experimental psychologist at the University of Cambridge, specializing in the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying emotional memory. Her research explores how emotion influences memory formation, attention, and perception, with a focus on the role of attention, relatedness, and distinctiveness in memory enhancement. She investigates the neural correlates of emotional memory using neuroimaging techniques and examines how emotional states modulate memory encoding and retrieval. Her work also extends to the integration of pain and reward during decision-making and the neural basis of prediction errors. Talmi's research bridges cognitive psychology and neuroscience, offering insights into the adaptive functions of emotional memory.